Wax Mannequin – Doin’

With the exception of sex and drugs, there are few things more satisfying than a well executed key-change.  Doin’, from Canadian Chris Adeney’s indie/folk/progressive-rock project Wax Mannequin, features one such key-change; unless completely dead inside, listeners should experience a moment of head-bobbing.  The song can be found on Wax Mannequin’s fifth-full length effort “Saxon”, released by Canadian indie-label Zunior on August 4th of 2009.  The album follows-up on Adeney’s 2007 “Orchard and Ire”, and the 2004 release “The Price”; The Price features the song Message from the Queen which, if one has heard Wax Mannequin before, is likely where one would have heard Wax Mannequin before.  For more from the new album, check out the MySpace below.

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Everything everyone is doin’, they’re doin’ it for you, they’re doin’ it for you
I’m doin’ it too
Everything everyone is doin’, they’re doing it to you, they’re doin’ it to you
You’re doin’ it too

You get to ride home alone?
‘Cause I know what you need
I get to live with your blood in me

Everything everyone is saying, they’re saying about you, they’re saying about you
I’m saying it to
Everything everyone is saying, they’re saying it at you, they’re saying it at you
We’re saying it to

It’s hard to hide in your love
‘Cause I know what you done
It’s hard to live with your blood inside

You can’t rely on my help
‘Cause you know what I done
You got to live for yourself and me

I got a heart that won’t bend, a thing that won’t break, my God it’s heavy
My God it’s work
We gotta work at it baby, make it look straight, and if it ain’t love
It’s something safe

I gotta ? that’s a flaming, it’s cooking up nice, my God it’s icky
My God it hurt
We gotta stoke up this oven, and use it for light, we’re fucking up now
Right up all night

And
Everything everyone is doing, they’re doing it for us, they’re making it for us
That’s not enough
Everything everyone is making, they’re making it for us, they’re building it for us
Let’s burn it up

There’ll be a time we can rest
When the making is done
We get to lie to ourselves and win

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